The title of this image gives away its mystery, but on first encounter one imagines that Laura McPhee must have invented this mystical woman in a white nightgown, standing alone in a golden field and raising an instrument to the expansive sky. Rather, Judy is entirely real, part of a family of scientists McPhee knew and photographed. The pictured ritual is Judy’s regular morning chore—it keeps the family and animals safe from wolves, which were controversially reintroduced to the area. While the image speaks to daily life in the Sawtooth Valley and to political issues surrounding the management of the land, it also suggests that our relationship to the land could still be sacred.